Thanks, will try that now.

Is there any way you can foresee if it will fail to switch to the second
file before running out of space without actually running the restore?

I suppose not, but this makes experimenting with this very slow.

Will keep you informed.



RBS



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From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Helen Borrie
Sent: 16 January 2008 20:44
To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [firebird-support] size specification either missing or
incorrect



At 06:47 AM 17/01/2008, you wrote:

>Yes, again didn't make multiple files, so error happened when size of the
>first .fdb file was 4 Gb.
>
>
>
>This was the last effort:
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>
>"C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\gbak.exe" -c -se
>localhost:service_mgr I:\Firebird\s6.fbk localhost:I:\Firebird\s6.fdb

500000

>localhost:I:\Firebird\s6A.fdb 500000 localhost:I:\Firebird\s6B.fdb -p 4096
>-v -user xxx -password yyy
>
> Any suggestions?

Yes, remove the localhost: prefix from all of the database file
specifications.

Try it first with it removed from all of them....if it reverts to the
"database unavailable" error then include it in the spec for the FIRST file
ONLY (that's the one with the main DB header page). From your earlier
attempts, it does appear that it might need to be there for the first file
spec, although this is contrary to the syntax for service manager.

If that turns out to be the case, then we have a previously undocumented
side-effect of trying to re[create] multi-file DBs under Classic on this
disk format. It is quite possible that you're the first person in the
history of Classic for Windows who has tried to create a multi-file database
on a FAT32 partition, so keep reporting your results back here.

./heLen

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>RBS
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>[mailto:firebird-support@ <mailto:firebird-support%40yahoogroups.com>

yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of RB Smissaert

>Sent: 16 January 2008 18:51
>To: firebird-support@ <mailto:firebird-support%40yahoogroups.com>

yahoogroups.com

>Subject: RE: [firebird-support] size specification either missing or
>incorrect
>
>
>
>Looks this is going the wrong way again as my s6.fdb is now over 2.3 Gb and
>with 4096 * 500000 = 2.048 Gb
>
>I had expected it would by start making file s6A.fdb
>
>So, it looks there still is something not right with my restore command.
>
>Should I use the -BU(FFERS) flag?
>
>With it taking such a long time to get to a large enough .fdb file to know
>it is going wrong, unraveling this is quite a trouble.
>
>RBS
>
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>[mailto:firebird-support@ <mailto:firebird-support%40yahoogroups.com>
>yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ivan Prenosil
>Sent: 16 January 2008 15:39
>To: firebird-support@ <mailto:firebird-support%40yahoogroups.com>
>yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [firebird-support] size specification either missing or
>incorrect
>
>> "C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_1_5\bin\gbak.exe" -c -p 4096 -se -v
>> localhost:service_mgr I:\Firebird\s6.fbk localhost:I:\Firebird\s6.fdb
>500000
>> localhost:I:\Firebird\s6A.fdb 500000 localhost:I:\Firebird\s6B.fdb -user
>xxx
>> -password yyy
>
>The switch
>-se
>expects value
>localhost:service_mgr
>i.e. put "-v" elsewhere.
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>Ivan
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